Some investors that were settling in Davros Switzerland called for the distribution of windfall taxes. Why? Because social eruptions are beginning across the globe. The rich fear the instability of modern capitalism. The British Tory Members of Parliament have just sprayed £15 billion across the poor (and the rich) hoping to smother the beginnings of mass strikes and to maintain the continuation of the government itself. Across the West and the South and the East the countries, in different conditions, are rising against the effects of the end of globalisation's domination.
Economists see the demise of the three decades of the era of globalisation. 'It's going to reverse.' (Financial Times.) 'Grappling with vital (new) strategic decisions.' (Davos, World Economy Forum.)
Current political leaders blatantly see it is now that the governments are needed to hold back and cover up the overthrow of the drastic disintegration of globalisation. There are many versions of these exercises but all have the same purpose, from escalating wars, to offering older versions of apparent 'benefits' from previous histories. All of the new politics is used to turn peoples' directions away from their own, genuine, grievances that have actually arisen from the break up of global capitalism. For example Prime Minister Boris Johnson suddenly wants to use the Queen's ancient birthday to turn back metric EU measurements. Hurrah!?
At the same time as Boris offers pints of beer in pubs there is to be a major review of all EU laws automatically kept on the statute book since Britain exited Europe. 'Brussels-made legislation will be improved or repealed if it is not to benefit the British people' booms the new future. (Government press release.) But the UK 'improvement' and its 'benefit' covers much more than beer and bananas. Along the governments list, tucked away, is the (already feeble) EU Trade Union laws.
Boris and the UK government have been watching the postal workers strikes, the decisions for action from teachers and health and welfare workers. They are studying the enormous 'yes' union votes for strike actions. Railway workers are fighting against potential sacking of thousands, where the remaining railway workers will have their wages cut and where those that are facing pensions will be sliced up in old age. This is piling up for a massive clash with Boris's government.
And here is the ticket. Boris is trying to use Brexit by turning the entirely legal union actions (that are already dealing with the worst labour laws in Europe) of the workers, particularly now on Railways, to smash these critical union decisions, which will affect all of the working class. The rail workers' battle is now the most critical. Here is the Boris's plan to use his version of Brexit. Boris's aim is to break all the remaining organised working class by using the removal of the EU's laws. The destruction of the remains of the unions will be smashed up by the UK taking its own way against European decisions. Boris intends to mobilise commuters, families with children at school, the public that is part of the six million or more seeking NHS requirements and many others, as the means to end what are already poor workers' legal rights.
Already Boris and his cronies have been developing a new law to allow railway workers to continue certain work if the strike goes ahead. Already he and his ministers are considering the removal of unions among teachers replaced by 'professional' organisations. These and others will be presented as a big part of the potential success against the EU.
Boris, who was called a new Berlusconi by EU officials and who had the doubtful pleasure of talking with him, is now desperately wanting to be a Thatcher. The wave of union votes is already raising the need of a collective, joint-action, which could provide the only means to prevent the intended new, crushing Thatcherite block of the current government and instead allow the reality to open out of its real conditions of and for the vast majority of a despairing society.
These are some of the political mechanisms, particularly in the West, that are being used as the fundamental issues, pushing away the key questions of the dissolving of capitalist globalisation and the creation of new alternatives. Already the Trumps, the Bolsonaros, the Orbans, the Dudas, the Putins etc, respond entirely by using brutal force to deal with the crises through those who show any opposition to them. Other political actors, from Biden to Macron, spend their time insisting on the return of the 2000's, while trying to find means that might save time by a temporarily diverted society.
But society cannot avoid the pretence that the previous 'success' of globalisation is collapsing by the day. Not one of the current political leaderships, whether initially subtle or openly violent, inevitably fiddle with the only perspectives that they really have; splitting up their 'dangerous' working classes and its allies and / or going to war.
The real and possible response? Action for truth. Stop, or prepare to stop, wars resulting from the dying capitalist state competitions - as with the Russian/NATO proxy battle. Retrieve decided proportions of profit to the needy. Re-establish rations once more, starting with heat and food. Wages should rise at least with inflation. Creating direct public votes for key decisions. Starting a new peoples' society increases the rights of those who face drastic decline. Introduce the increasing power of the vast majority. Hidden change created by backward politics and politicians that pretend that they will give us an apparently previous status quo, has to be swept away, in favour of the new practical political reality.
Brian Heron
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